What’s New?

• Eagle Nest Farmers Market! Every Friday beginning June 6 through Labor Day. Noon -
6 p.m., Golden Eagle RV Park.
Info, 575-377-2420.

• Eagle Nest Flea Market First weekend of each month beginning June 7. Saturdays 7 a.m.- 3 p.m.
and Sunday 7 a.m. - noon at village park.
Info, 575-377-2420.

• Health Fair coming to
Eagle Nest in June. TBA.
Info, 575-377-2420.
• Taste of New Mexico Aug. 16 & 17 at village park. Taste wines and southwestern foods from New Mexico. Info, 575-377-2420.

Party Time …

• Historic Laguna Vista Lodge and Saloon: Historic saloon from1898, pool tables, live music. Therma Drive.

• Lucky Shoe Bar & Grille:
Karaoke, trivia 24/7, pool
tournaments. Therma Drive.

FYI...

• Eagle Nest Chamber:
377-2420, 800-494-9117; www.eaglenest.org

• Sangre de Cristo Chronicle:
575-377-2358; www.sangrechronicle.com

A Little History ...

• In 1908, Charles and Frank Springer received a permit to build a dam. It was completed in 1918. The lake itself was named for the eagles that circled overhead while construction was under way.

• Entrepreneur Talmadge D. Neal purchased land from Charles Gallagher and built a store on Moreno Creek. When a post office was established in the store Aug. 28, 1920, postmaster Neal named the new site Therma after the post office inspector’s daughter. The second postmaster, Anne L. Haddow, renamed the town Eagle Nest in 1935.

• History buffs can view the remnants of the former gold mining boomtown Elizabethtown north of Eagle Nest. Today, all that remains of the once-thriving town are the cemetery and rock walls of the old Mutz Hotel. The E’town Museum — with pictures, maps, books, old cars, clothing, family heirlooms and other memorabilia of the era — is open summers, Memorial Day to Labor Day. 377-3420.

“We first came to Eagle Nest to visit friends Leah and Mario Acosta. They were building a house and they asked us to stay and help them with the construction. They also were urging us to open a karate school here. We fell in love with the beauty of the area and decided to give it a try. We’ve always wanted to live in a cabin in the mountains and we were able to find that here.”

In conversation with Joe Warren

Angel Heidebur moved to Eagle Nest with her
husband Bill Roy in 2003. She is manager of the Corner Market. She also trains and is an instructor in Chinese Temple Boxing.